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Masters of the Supreme Court

Masters of the Supreme Court, in the King's Bench Division, officials, seven in number, deriving their title from the (English) Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879 (see now Jud. Act, 1925, ss. 106, 122, Sched. III., Part I.),...

Indictment

Indictment [fr. indico, Lat., to show], a written accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. Grand juries were partly abolished by the Administration...

Justiciar or Justiciary, Chief

Justiciar or Justiciary, Chief, an officer instituted by William the Conqueror, of high importance in our early history, a lord chief justice. He presided in the King's Court and in the Exchequer, and his authority extended...

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Primer seisin

Primer seisin, a feudal burthen, only incident to the King's tenants in capite, and not to those who held of inferior or mesne lords. It was a right which the King had, when any of his...

Inquest of Office

Inquest of Office, an inquiry made by the king's officer, his sheriff, coroner, or escheat or, virtute officii, or by writ sent to them for that purpose, or by commissioners specially appointed, concerning any matter that...

Prerogative

Prerogative, a peculiar or exclusive privilege. Especially, all the rights which by law the King has as chief of the kingdom and as entrusted with the execution of the laws. The prerogative of the Crown cannot...

Rex est major singulis, minor universis

Rex est major singulis, minor universis (Bract. lib. i, c. 8), the king is greater than any single person: less than all. But if the claims of the king come in contract with the rights of...

Public prosecutor

Public prosecutor, means a Public Prosecutor or an Additional Public Prosecutor or a Special Public Prosecutor appointed under s. 28 and includes any person acting under the directions of the Public Prosecutor. [Prevention of Terrorism Act,...

Queen's Bench Division

Queen's Bench Division, means the English court, formerly known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,...

Queen's Counsel

Queen's Counsel (abbreviated Q.C.). See KING'S COUNSEL (abbreviated K.C.). All Queen's Counsel at the death of the late Queen Victoria became King's Counsel without any new appointment.

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Masters of the Supreme Court

Masters of the Supreme Court, in the King's Bench Division, officials, seven in number, deriving their title from the (English) Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879 (see now Jud. Act, 1925, ss. 106, 122, Sched. III., Part I.),...

Indictment

Indictment [fr. indico, Lat., to show], a written accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. Grand juries were partly abolished by the Administration...

Justiciar or Justiciary, Chief

Justiciar or Justiciary, Chief, an officer instituted by William the Conqueror, of high importance in our early history, a lord chief justice. He presided in the King's Court and in the Exchequer, and his authority extended...

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Primer seisin

Primer seisin, a feudal burthen, only incident to the King's tenants in capite, and not to those who held of inferior or mesne lords. It was a right which the King had, when any of his...

Inquest of Office

Inquest of Office, an inquiry made by the king's officer, his sheriff, coroner, or escheat or, virtute officii, or by writ sent to them for that purpose, or by commissioners specially appointed, concerning any matter that...

Prerogative

Prerogative, a peculiar or exclusive privilege. Especially, all the rights which by law the King has as chief of the kingdom and as entrusted with the execution of the laws. The prerogative of the Crown cannot...

Rex est major singulis, minor universis

Rex est major singulis, minor universis (Bract. lib. i, c. 8), the king is greater than any single person: less than all. But if the claims of the king come in contract with the rights of...

Public prosecutor

Public prosecutor, means a Public Prosecutor or an Additional Public Prosecutor or a Special Public Prosecutor appointed under s. 28 and includes any person acting under the directions of the Public Prosecutor. [Prevention of Terrorism Act,...

Queen's Bench Division

Queen's Bench Division, means the English court, formerly known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,...

Queen's Counsel

Queen's Counsel (abbreviated Q.C.). See KING'S COUNSEL (abbreviated K.C.). All Queen's Counsel at the death of the late Queen Victoria became King's Counsel without any new appointment.

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